Back in the day, Adrian Dantley was known in the NBA more as a post-up guard than a player with a killer crossover. Now? Deadspin.com reports he’s a former NBA player, holding down the post of crossing guard.

According to Dave McKenna's story, Dantley, who played 15 seasons for seven NBA teams, “pulls morning and afternoon shifts at a busy intersection outside Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Md. The job, which he took at the beginning of this school year, earns him $14,685.50 a year, according to Montgomery County civil service records."

"He doesn't need the money," said an associate of Dantley, who according to basketball-reference.com earned millions in his career.

"He's not going to just sit around," the associate continues, "and he just doesn't want to pay health insurance."

Dantley didn’t comment for Deadspin’s story, which details his inability to get along with a long line of teams, coaches, teammates and agents.

His last job in the league was as an assistant coach with the Denver Nuggets. He was fired after the 2010-2011 season, according to Deadspin, for refusing to sit in a row of seats behind the players, as coach George Karl had asked his aides to do.

The speech Dantley gave as his college jersey was retired in 2007 seems even more bittersweet now.

"Enjoy your years here at Notre Dame," he said. "You get a job in the real world, it's going to be a lot different."

Dantley's real-world job these days, though not as glamorous as his ones in the NBA, has its benefits. Lots and lots of benefits, actually, Deadspin points out.

In fact, Montgomery County officials took a lot of heat after a 2010 story in the Washington Examiner reported that crossing guards there were making about $41.50 an hour.

"Once considered the best-kept secret among a workforce of 30,000," the newspaper reported, "the position has become one of the county's most popular, particularly among those seeking health-care coverage for their families."

Guards are part-time employees, and they normally put in one hour a day, but they receive the same insurance and benefits package as full-timers, according to the report.

And yet Dantley has a job and, like his NBA days, he does it well.

“On a recent morning,” McKenna writes, “I was sitting in a car at the intersection that Dantley guards, and just minutes before the first period bell was to ring, I saw him lunge in front of a running youngster, who was oblivious to everything but her own fear of tardiness, and keep the kid out of the path of a turning automobile. “He went about this lifesaving task with all the effort he'd put into stopping Isaiah Thomas from driving to the basket. … It was as if the gods wanted me to know Dantley's not on anybody's dole.”